Web Publishing News

HTML Email theme added to Blog element

You can now include blog posts in the HTML Email template by setting the blog theme to "HTML Email". This setting will depend on your blog being configured to group blog posts by publication. This theme will display any featured blog post in the publication, or the most recent blog post as a main feature, with the remaining posts listed below.

Survey start and end dates and times

Lightbox Display

A new element has been added to the Content Well category which can be used to add a Lightbox display view to content linked from a Commonspot page. To use this element, add the “lightbox” style class to any element that contains links to content you want displayed in this manner, and then add and configure the Lightbox Display element on that page.

Flickr Gallery

The blog system now includes the capability of displaying video hosted on Vimeo and image sets on Flickr. To include either, use the New Blog Post form and add the Vimeo or Flickr set URL to the Images/Media section.

Commonspot 6 and Firefox

The new version of Commonspot is not compatible with Firefox 11. If you are encountering bugs when using FIrefox 11 in a Commonspot authoring session, we recommend installing Firefox 10 ESR. This version of Firefox will be compatible with the current and future releases of Commonspot.

Replication schedule updated

Commonspot 6 service pack installed

Our Commonspot installation was updated on Tuesday morning. This package included a number of bug fixes, and enabled support for Firefox 10 ESR. This "extended support release" for Firefox is the version that will be supported in Commonspot for the next year, and will be maintained in a stable state by Mozilla.

Other versions of Firefox will update automatically, and will likely have conflicts with Commonspot's authoring interface. If you're using Firefox for Commonspot authoring, we recommend installing Firefox 10 ESR.

Commonspot authoring offline on Monday March 26 at 5pm

We will begin preparing the servers for the Coldfusion 9 and Commonspot 6 upgrade beginning at 5pm on Monday, March 26th. At that time, authoring access to the cms server will be turned off, and we will run a final replication to the www servers. Authoring will be re-enabled during the day on Tuesday, when all four of the staging and production servers have been upgraded. Plan ahead! If you have anything that needs to be online on Tuesday, make sure you have that published before 5pm on Monday.